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Kazakh

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Also known as Kazakh language, Qazaq, Qazaq language, Qazaqşa

Turkic language in Central Asia, state language of Kazakhstan

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Kazakh is a language identified by the Wikimedia language codes "kk", "kk-cyrl", "kk-arab", and "kk-latn". It is categorized under the Commons category "Kazakh language" and has an exact match entry at the European Union publications authority resource for the language KAZ. The language is also referenced by the abbreviation "каз." in abbreviations tables.

According to available data, there are 13,161,980 speakers, writers, or signers of the language. The subject is described at a URL on the Turkic Database at Elegant Lexicon, which is a searchable database of lexical items in the Turkic languages. Additionally, the topic is referenced by 4,782 other encyclopedia articles.

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Turkic Database at Elegant Lexicon

A searchable database of lexical items in the Turkic languages

turkic.elegantlexicon.com

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
modern language
Subclass of
Kipchak
Country
Ukraine
Image
Kzkzkz.jpg
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Wikimedia language code
kk-latn
Commons category
Kazakh language
linguistic typology
vowel harmony
topic's main category
Category:Kazakh language
native label
қазақ тілі
writing system
Latin alphabet
short name
qazaqsha
indigenous to
Sirdaryo Region
category for films in this language
Category:Kazakh-language films
P10369
rook
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
number of speakers, writers, or signers
13161980
entry in abbreviations table
каз.
has grammatical case
ablative case
has tense
future tense
topic has template
Q112973148
female form of label
la langue kazakhe
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Encyclopedic overview

A Kazakh speaker, recorded in Taiwan A Kazakh speaker, recorded in Kazakhstan

Kazakh is a Turkic language of the Kipchak branch spoken in Central Asia by the Kazakhs. It is closely related to Nogai, Kyrgyz and Karakalpak. It is the official language of Kazakhstan, and has official status in the Altai Republic of Russia. It is also a minority language in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture in Xinjiang, China, and in the Bayan-Ölgii Province of western Mongolia. The language is also spoken by many ethnic Kazakhs throughout the former Soviet Union (some 472,000 in Russia according to the 2010 Russian census), Germany, and Turkey.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kazakh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.